The Catalogue raisonnépresented by Cordula Grewe, the internationally acknowledged Schadow-expert, offers much more than a comprehensive overview. It satisfies the scientific demands and at the same time appeals to the general public, because Grewe's analyzes are knowledgeable, profound, and at the same time they are as read as a criminal story.

This standard work, which finally takes account of the founder of the Dusseldorf painting school, was scientifically supervised by the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf in cooperation with the Galerie Paffrath.

Peder Mönsted. Zauber der Natur

by Hans Paffrath (editor)

Hans Paffrath and his team created a first work overview of the Danish painter Peder Mönsted (1859-1941). Over 1000 paintings by the Danish painter are presented in this special edition on 272 pages. With a text by Iris Metje.

For the new monography on the life and work of the artist family Preyer, the existing knowledge was reworked, expanded with materials from a recently found estate and thus brought the Preyer research up to date. In addition to the extensively illustrated catalogs of paintings by Johann Wilhelm Preyer and his daughter Emilie, many works are presented in large-format colour charts, which allow detailed viewing.

Max Clarenbach (1880 Neuss - Köln 1952)

by Hans Paffrath (editor)

Max Clarenbach is one of the most important personalities of Rhenish painting after the turn of the century. His resume is legendary. He comes from a middle-class family and is a professional artist at an early age. At the age of 14, he began his studies at the Düsseldorf Academy. He became a professor when he was 27 years and a year later he was already the owner of a villa in Wittlaer. He exhibited alongside the French Impressionists Cézanne, Monet, Renoir and van Gogh.

Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule (3 volumes)

For the first time in the history of art, a comprehensive lexicon about the Düsseldorf School of Painting has been created. Between 1819 and 1918Düsseldorf had developed into an art center of international standing in the 19th century. The Royal Prussian Academy of Fine Arts - led by directors with famous names as Peter Cornelius and Wilhelm Schadow - was also an attraction for numerous foreign artists from 17 nations, among whom the Americans and Scandinavians formed the main share. The Düsseldorf School of Painting is essentially marked by the impulses which the individual teachers presented with their stylistic themes and themes in the bourgeois art of the 19th century. Johann Wilhelm Preyer, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Andreas Achenbach, Johann Peter Hasenclever and Ludwig Knaus served almost all styles and pictorial themes - historiography, landscape, genre and still life.

For the three-volume lexicon, about 1000 artists were selected from 4000 artists' names, whose way of life is described according to the latest research. Further 1000 are mentioned in an appendix with their most important data.

Meisterwerke der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819-1918

by Hans Paffrath (author)

This was the famous Painting School in Düsseldorf: moody landscapes, loving pictures of children, history paintings and brilliant still life - presented in a selection of 103 masterpieces between Romanticism and Impressionism. This book deals with the life of the artists and their work, describes the themes of the paintings. Between 1819-1918, the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts was the center of the Rhenish art scene. Its worldwide appeal was characterized by more than 1000 German painters, who studied together with Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Russians and Americans in Düsseldorf and thus belonged to the "Düsseldorfer School of Painting". The rise of Düsseldorf from small beginnings to the international centre of painting with a charisma throughout Europe and overseas is one of the most exciting chapters of the history of the Rhineland.

On 228 pages, 103 masterpieces from the Düsseldorfer School of Painting are presented.

Hugo Mühlig

by Hans Paffrath (author)

Hugo Mühlig (1854-1929) is one of the most internationally known representatives of the late painting school in Düsseldorf. Originally from a family of painters in Dresden, Hugo Mühlig moved to Düsseldorf in 1881, where the landscape painting had outstanding representatives with Eugen Dücker and the brothers Achenbach. Today, works by Hugo Mühlig can be found not only in numerous private collections, but also in various German museums such as the National Gallery of Berlin, the Museum of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, the Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister in Dresden, the Staatliche und Städtisches Kunstsammlungen (Neue Galerie) in Kassel and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne.

On 94 pages, 41 typical paintings by Hugo Mühlig are presented with colour illustrations and text.